Brave Browser Launches Bitcoin Micropayments For Rewarding User-Preferred Websites
Brave, a web browser that blocks third-party trackers and ads, has introduced a beta version of its bitcoin-based payment system that automatically pays the websites that users want to support. Brave Payments allows users to reward sites for content they like without being tracked. The beta was announced in a blog by Brendan Eich, Brave’s owner, who helped build the Mozilla web browser and created JavaScript. Eich noted web users are frustrated with the pervasive advertising technology ecosystem that slows data connections and clogs web pages with tracking pixels, scripts and ads. Users....
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